ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,676, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DrFirst.com Inc. (Rockville, Md.).

"System and method for on-demand data cleansing" was invented by Brian J. Downs (Scottsdale, Ariz.), John K. Moore (Phoenix) and Antonio Iniguez (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for on-demand data cleansing is disclosed. The system includes a processor and a volatile memory including a data object having a plurality of data fields, each field having a tag and a value. The system also includes a cleansing module stored in the volatile memory and executed by the processor. The cleansing module includes a library having a plurality of t...